Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Charles Dorety
- Husband
- (uncredited)
Budd Fine
- Blocker Cabbie
- (uncredited)
Dick Gilbert
- Blocker Cabbie
- (uncredited)
Jack Herrick
- Blocker Cabbie
- (uncredited)
Jack Hill
- Blocker cabbie
- (uncredited)
Frank Rice
- Black & White Cabbie
- (uncredited)
Leo Sulky
- Blocker Cabbie
- (uncredited)
Pat West
- Blocker Cabbie
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- Henry Johnson(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaLast of ten shorts in the "Taxi Boys" series from Hal Roach Studios, released through MGM from 1932 to 1933.
- ConnectionsFollows What Price Taxi (1932)
Featured review
A Fun Live Action Cartoon
After the demise of the "The Boyfriends" series Hal Roach hired Mack Sennett's ace director Del Lord to create a new series "The Taxi Boys". THUNDERING TAXIS was the last released in the short-lived series but was actually the first one filmed (according to comedy historian/guru Richard Roberts) and is one of the wilder examples of meshing silent film techniques with sound comedic stylings. Silent comedy veterans Billy Bevan and Clyde Cook are recruited to recreate their glory years. At one point the action stops so Cook can revisit a clam eating routine first performed by Bevan in WANDERING WILLIES (26). Lord goes all out using fast motion, mechanical (these taxis get bent , twisted and turned)and impossible gags (a cabbie's arm stretches to incredible lengths to retrieve an unpaid fare), and even animation (an old silent comedy dodge). In fact, if ever there was a live action cartoon this is it.
Bud Jamison leads a ragtag, misfit crew of cabbies who line up each morning for inspection and then promptly get toppled over like bowling pins. When a taxi war breaks (thanks to the lovely Muriel Evans, who once again loses her skirt)out they show what a true cowering, sniveling group they are. Cook and Bevan get pushed to the forefront of the fight but it's all about the gags - a taxis with headlights for eyes peer outside the garage to see if the coast is clear; lethal spits of tobacco juice break windshields, knock over whole cabs and make them spin like a top on the road. This short is not about plot or character development. Our two heroes are just as much props as the taxis are. Dirty tricks abound and when Bevan tries to retaliate he gets a telephone pole crashing upon his car for his troubles. Eventually a chase breaks out but by now all of the cabs on both sides are so damaged that it's more of a junk yard derby featuring bouncing heaps on the road.
All in all this is a fun short for lovers of sight gag comedy.
Bud Jamison leads a ragtag, misfit crew of cabbies who line up each morning for inspection and then promptly get toppled over like bowling pins. When a taxi war breaks (thanks to the lovely Muriel Evans, who once again loses her skirt)out they show what a true cowering, sniveling group they are. Cook and Bevan get pushed to the forefront of the fight but it's all about the gags - a taxis with headlights for eyes peer outside the garage to see if the coast is clear; lethal spits of tobacco juice break windshields, knock over whole cabs and make them spin like a top on the road. This short is not about plot or character development. Our two heroes are just as much props as the taxis are. Dirty tricks abound and when Bevan tries to retaliate he gets a telephone pole crashing upon his car for his troubles. Eventually a chase breaks out but by now all of the cabs on both sides are so damaged that it's more of a junk yard derby featuring bouncing heaps on the road.
All in all this is a fun short for lovers of sight gag comedy.
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- lowbrowstudios
- Jan 27, 2011
Details
- Runtime16 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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